Folter in iranischen Geheimgefängnissen
A new report from a human rights monitor documents the use of torture in what it says is a network of secret detention centres run by Iran’s intelligence ministry and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kurdish areas of western Iran, based on extensive interviews with former detainees, many of whom were arrested for their political activities and association with Kurdish opposition groups.
Former detainees described being repeatedly interrogated, sat with their back to the interrogator and flanked by two prison guards who would “beat me regularly if they did not hear the answers they looked for,” recalled one. They were beaten with batons, hoses, sticks, often to the point of passing out.
The report released Friday by the France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) details the existence of secret detention centres run by the Ministry of Intelligence and the IRGC’s intelligence branch in the Kurdish cities of Kermanshah, Sanandaj, and Urmia, and the use of torture in these facilities.